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Can an Outsider Ever Truly Become Amish? One of the rarest religious experiences you can have in America is to join the Plain. March 29, 2016 at 08:01PM

Can an Outsider Ever Truly Become Amish?

The Declining Taste of the Global Super-Rich

The Declining Taste of the Global Super-Rich Today’s "patrons of the arts" are less interested in opera and ballet, and more interested in novelty furniture and enormous sculptures of their own faces. March 30, 2016 at 12:45AM

Can quicksand really suck you to your death?

Cocaine in the Tiramisu: What I Saw Working for a Restaurant Run by the Polish Mafia

Can quicksand really suck you to your death? We’ve all seen the films.  A man is caught in quicksand, begging onlookers for help, but the more he struggles, the further down into the sand he is sucked until eventually he disappears. March 29, 2016 at 10:00PM

Cocaine in the Tiramisu: What I Saw Working for a Restaurant Run by the Polish Mafia The restaurant received approximately three to five customers per day. But it was not established to make money. It was a front for something much darker. March 29, 2016 at 06:05PM

Sound check: the quietest place in the U.S.

Sound check: the quietest place in the U.S. Gordon Hempton and the three decade search for pure silence. March 30, 2016 at 03:06AM

Who Picks Up the Check in the Tinder-verse? Three millennials talk about the future of money, dating, and what’s changed since ‘Sex and the City.’ March 29, 2016 at 01:41AM

Who Picks Up the Check in the Tinder-verse?

Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski charged with battery for grabbing reporter in Florida

Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski charged with battery for grabbing reporter in Florida The report from the Jupiter Police Department said Corey Lewandowski was charged for intentionally grabbing and bruising the arm of Michelle Fields, a former reporter for the conservative news outlet Breitbart, against her will at a Trump campaign event on March 8. March 29, 2016 at 03:48PM

Watch The Ground Just, Uh, Disappear During This Nuclear Test This is what happens when an underground nuclear explosion basically makes the Earth hollow. March 29, 2016 at 06:05PM

Watch The Ground Just, Uh, Disappear During This Nuclear Test

Roskilde station is the oldest railway station in Denmark and opened June 26, 1847. The architecture is believed to be inspired by Villa Borghese in Rome. Photo taken on March 30, 2015..

Article of the day is Jumping Flash!. Check it out: http://ift.tt/1oWeX6W

Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski charged with battery for grabbing reporter in Florida

Picture of the day on March 30, 2016: Roskilde station is the oldest railway station in Denmark and opened June 26, 1847. The architecture is believed to be inspired by Villa Borghese in Rome. Photo taken on March 30, 2015.

Word of the day is sewer : (now historical) A servant attending at a meal who is responsible for seating arrangements, serving dishes, etc. […] One who sews. A small tortricid moth the larva of which sews together the edges of a leaf using silk. To celebrate April Fools' Day this week, we are featuring a series of words with unexpected meanings. Enjoy!

sewer , n : (now historical) A servant attending at a meal who is responsible for seating arrangements, serving dishes, etc. […] One who sews. A small tortricid moth the larva of which sews together the edges of a leaf using silk. To celebrate April Fools' Day this week, we are featuring a series of words with unexpected meanings. Enjoy!

The Article of the day for March 30, 2016 is Jumping Flash! . Jumping Flash! is a platform video game co-developed by Exact and Ultra and published by Sony Computer Entertainment. The first instalment in the Jumping Flash! series, it was released in April 1995 for the PlayStation in Japan and later the same year in Europe and North America; it was re-released through PlayStation Network store on PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Portable in 2007. Presented in a first-person perspective, the game follows a robotic rabbit named Robbit as he searches for missing jet pods that have been scattered by the game's antagonist character, the astrophysicist Baron Aloha. The game has been described as an early showcase for 3D graphics in console gaming. Generally well received by critics, who praised its graphics and unique gameplay, it was later overshadowed by 3D platformers of the fifth console generation. It was described as the third-most underrated video game of all time by Matt Casamassina...

Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski charged with battery for grabbing reporter in Florida The report from the Jupiter Police Department said Corey Lewandowski was charged for intentionally grabbing and bruising the arm of Michelle Fields, a former reporter for the conservative news outlet Breitbart, against her will at a Trump campaign event on March 8.

Why ISIS Is Winning the Social Media War

Why ISIS Is Winning the Social Media War The cockroach-like resilience of the Islamic State’s social media cheerleaders has bewildered American law enforcement.

Introducing Fiber Phone

Introducing Fiber Phone From Internet carrying balloons to self-driving cars, we're used to Google announcing some pretty awesome tech. Their latest innovation, though, mixes the new with the old.

When You Become The Person You Hate On The Internet No one ever intends to become that guy on the Internet, the one who throws around random insults, hurting anyone in his path; yet somehow people find themselves perpetrating online abuse every day.

When You Become The Person You Hate On The Internet

40 Years Later: Apple 3.0 Maturity doesn’t have to be boring. The 40-year old Apple doesn’t lack the challenges it needs, both external and internal, to stay interesting. March 28, 2016 at 09:23PM

40 Years Later: Apple 3.0

What Do The Reviews Say About The Oculus Rift? Is the future now? Maybe not, but if you have a rich friend, it's worth re-kindling that friendship. March 28, 2016 at 03:37PM

What Do The Reviews Say About The Oculus Rift?

Watch In Horror As Donald Trump Morphs Into Cthulhu Via Google's Deep Dream AI

Turning Live Surveillance Feeds Into Unsettling Works of Art

The Marxophone Makes Spooky Folk Music And It's Pretty Cool

Watch In Horror As Donald Trump Morphs Into Cthulhu Via Google's Deep Dream AI Photographer Eric Cheng thought it would be entertaining to run a Trump speech through Google's Deep Dream AI with a pic of Cthulhu as a guide image for the algorithm to dream about. Cheng was wrong. It's not entertaining, it's disturbing.

Turning Live Surveillance Feeds Into Unsettling Works of Art This demonstration of surveillance-turned-art, titled “Jaywalking,” presents the sort of uncomfortably easy privacy invasion that artist Dries Depoorter has made his trademark.

The Marxophone Makes Spooky Folk Music And It's Pretty Cool Named for its inventor, Henry Charles Marx, the marxophone combines a zither with a keyboard and with just one stroke of your fingers, it sounds like you're at a carnival of some sorts.

Beyond the sea | Andy Woodruff If you're standing on the east coast of the US looking out at the Atlantic Ocean, there's a good chance that the landmass directly across the ocean(s) from you is... Australia? March 28, 2016 at 03:24PM

Beyond the sea | Andy Woodruff

How Much Support Does Hillary Actually Lose Because She's A Woman?

How Much Support Does Hillary Actually Lose Because She's A Woman? An experiment suggests that Hillary's gender is a bigger obstacle than race was for Obama. March 28, 2016 at 11:42PM

The Unbearable Sadness Of Ben Affleck The Ben Affleck of the late ‘90s was a charm machine. Within five years, he was a punchline. It took a decade for his career to recover. Today, he’s again at war with his image. So what’s Affleck so ashamed of? March 28, 2016 at 10:35PM

The Unbearable Sadness Of Ben Affleck

Crissy Moran tried to leave pornography behind, but the industry won’t let her go

Crissy Moran tried to leave pornography behind, but the industry won’t let her go She walked away from a lucrative career as an adult film star to start her life over. But online, others are still making money off her work. A lot of money. More money than she ever made herself. March 28, 2016 at 12:35AM

The enduring, cult appeal of 'Magic: the Gathering'

The enduring, cult appeal of 'Magic: the Gathering' 'Magic' is dizzyingly complicated, extremely technical, and — to the layman — completely incomprehensible. March 28, 2016 at 07:17PM

FBI has accessed San Bernardino shooter’s phone without Apple’s help

FBI has accessed San Bernardino shooter’s phone without Apple’s help The stunning move averts a courtroom showdown between Apple and federal prosecutors that many in the tech community had warned might set dangerous precedents. March 28, 2016 at 11:42PM